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Do you remember the sixties? I do. I have put together a list of the best instrumentals for the decade of the sixties. I remember many of these great hits while going to high school and serving in the military. Some of these songs became background music for some great TV commercials.

This list was compiled by using the following formula: The highest position reached on the charts, number of weeks in the peak position, number of weeks in the top 10, number of weeks in the top 40, and finally the total number of weeks charted.

Here is the list of the top 100 greatest instrumental hits of the 60s. The list shows the rank, title, artist, peak position () and the year the record reached the peak position.

The Theme From A Summer Place/Percy Faith (1) 1960

Love Is Blue/Paul Mauriat (1) 1968

Wonderland By Night/Bert Keampfert (1) 1961

Telstar/The Tornadoes (1) 1962

Calcutta/Lawrence Welk (1) 1961

Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet/Henry Mancini (1) 1969

Grazing In The Grass/Hugh Mesekela (1) 1968

Stranger On The Shore/Acker Bilk (1) 1962

The Stripper/David Rose (1) 1962

Last Date/Floyd Cramer (2) 1960

The Horse/Cliff Nobles & Co. (2) 1968

Classical Gas/Mason Williams (2) 1968

Apache/Jorgen Ingmann (2) 1961

Exodus/Ferrante & Teicher (2) 1961

Walk Don't Run/The Ventures (2) 1960

Wipeout/The Surfaris (2) 1963

The Good The Bad And The Ugly/Hugo Montenegro (2) 1968

Midnight In Moscow/Kenny Ball (2) 1962

Washington Square/The Village Stompers (2) 1963

Wheels/The String-A-Longs (3) 1961

Last Night/Mar-Keys (3) 1961

Out Of Limits/The Marketts (3) 1964

Green Onions/Booker T & The MG's (3) 1962

No Matter What Shape/The T-Bones (3) 1966

Pipeline/Chantay's (4) 1963

Because They're Young/Duane Eddy (4) 1960

Java/Al Hurt (4) 1964

On The Rebound/Floyd Cramer (4) 1961

Yellow Bird/Arthur Lyman Group (4) 1961

Hawaii Five-O/The Ventures (4) 1969

The "In" Crowd/Ramsey Lewis Trio (5) 1965

Memphis/Lonnie Mack (5) 1963

Time Is Tight/Booker T & The MG's (6) 1969

Maria Elena/Los Indois Tabajaras (6) 1963

The Lonely Bull/Herb Alpert (6) 1962

Taste Of Honey/Herb Alpert (7) 1965

Alley Cat/Bent Fabric (7) 1962

Let There Be Drums/Sandy Nelson (7) 1961

Mexico/Bob Moore (7) 1961

One Mint Julep/Ray Charles (8) 1961

Walk Don't Run 64/The Ventures (8) 1964

More/Kai Winding (8) 1963

Wild Weekend/The Rebels (8) 1963

Asia Minor/Kokomo (8) 1961

Tonight/Ferrante & Teicher (8) 1961

San Antonio Rose/Floyd Cramer (8) 1961

Hang 'Em High/Booker T & The MG's (9) 1969

White Silver Sands/Bill Black's Combo (9) 1960

Our Winter Love/Bill Pursell (9) 1963

Theme From The Apartment/Ferrante & Teicher (10) 1960

Watermelon Man/Mongo Santamaria (10) 1963

Caste Your Fate To The Wind/Sounds Orchestral (10) 1965

Rinky Dink/Dave "Baby" Cortez (10) 1962

Percolator (Twist)/Billy Joe & The Checkmates (10) 1962

Red Roses For A Blue Lady/Bert Keampfert (11) 1965

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy/Cannonball Adderley (11) 1967

Hang On Sloopy/Ramsey Lewis Trio (11) 1965

Don't Be Cruel/Bill Black's Combo (11) 1960

Zorba The Greek/Herb Alpert (11) 1966

A Walk Through The Black Forest/Horst Jankowski (12) 1965

Quentin's Theme/Charles Randolph Grean Sounde (13) 1969

Tracy's Theme/Spencer Ross (13) 1960

A Swingin Safari/Billy Vaughn (13) 1962

Twine Time/Alvin Cash & The Crawlers (14) 1965

Fly Me To The Moon Bossa Nova/Joe Harnell (14) 1963

Shangri-La/Robert Maxwell (15) 1964

Desafinado/Stan Getz (15) 1962

Wonderland By Night/Louis Prima (15) 1961

Cotton Candty/Al Hurt (15) 1964

Beatnik Fly/Johnny & The Hurricanes (15) 1960

Perfidia/Ventures (15) 1960

Music To Watch Girls By/Bob Crewe Generation (15) 1967

Baby Scratch My Back/Slim Harpo (16) 1966

Keem-O-Sabe/Electric Indian (16) 1969

Blue Tango/Bill Black's Combo (16) 1960

Tuff/Ace Cannon (17) 1962

Soul Twist/King Curtis (17) 1962

Smokie Part 2/Bill Black's Combo (17) 1960

Batman Theme/The Marketts (17) 1966

Soul Finger/Bar-Kays (17) 1967

Soul Limbo/Booker T & The MG's (17) 1968

The Work Song/Herb Alpert (18) 1966

Josephine/Bill Black's Combo (18) 1960

Pepe/Duane Eddy (18) 1961

Penetration/Pyramids (18) 1964

Wade In The Water/Ramsey Lewis Trio (19) 1966

Never On Sunday/Don Costa (19) 1960

Let's Go/Routers (19) 1962

Look For A Star/Billy Vaughn (19) 1960

Bonanza/Al Calola (19) 1961

I've Got A Woman Part 1/Jimmy McGriff (20) 1962

I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman/Whistling Jack Smith (20) 1967

Hearts Of Stone/Bill Black's Combo (20) 1961

Groovin'/Booker T & The MG's (21) 1967

Mr. Lucky/Henry Mancini (21) 1960

Walk On The Wild Side Part 1/Jimmy Smith (21) 1962

Bumble Boogie/B. Bumble & The Stingers (21) 1961

Last Date/Lawrence Welk (21) 1960

Wiggle Wobble/Les Cooper (22) 1963

Caste Your Fate To The Wind/Vince Guaraldi Trio (22) 1963

If you were like me, I was quite surprised by this list. Maybe you have the same reaction. These are great songs in their own right. To make this list the song had to rank nationally in the top 40 which is quite a feat. Hopefully you have many of these songs in your collection.

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